It is hard to guess what a Pacific shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pacific shrew (Sorex pacificus) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Pacific shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Pacific shrews have 4 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The Pacific shrew (Sorex pacificus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to western Oregon in the United States.The Pacific Shrew is native to western Oregon, more specifically from the Siltcoos lake to the coast going from the border line of Douglas and Lane counties continuing south to the northern parts of California. The very first documented Pacific shrew to be caught was found at the mouth of the Umpqua River in 1858. They are normally found in damp areas along creeks in forests and sometimes near collapsed trees. Their refuge is of the utmost importance and they are seldom found far from it. This includes collapsed trees or dense vegetation. They use the flora to build a nest, gathering small plants such as grass, moss, lichen, or leaves into a pile and pushing themselves into the middle.
Animals of the same family as a Pacific shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Wimmer’s shrew with a weight of 23 grams
- Large-toothed shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Montane shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Fog shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Andean small-eared shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Thomas’s small-eared shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Lesser striped shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Sahelian tiny shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Japanese water shrew with a weight of 36 grams
- Buettikofer’s shrew with 2 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Pacific shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex pacificus:
- Tacarcuna bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Dwarf little fruit bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Somali shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Southeast Asian shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Peters’s mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Golden bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Pygmy gerbil bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Bini free-tailed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Pacific shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pacific shrew:
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bates’s shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Inquisitive shrew mole with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed musk shrew with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hairy big-eyed bat with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Alpine shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Nelson’s pocket mouse with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern red-sided opossum with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mediterranean water shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Pacific shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Pacific shrew: